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Show STREAMS OF LAVA I POUR OVER ISLAND VOLCANIC ERUPTION Wipes out VILLAGE AND BRINGS DEATH TO HUNDREDS. Five Hundred Natives of Island of Ambrim Lose Their Lives When All the Craters of Volcano Enter Into Full Activity. Sydney, New South Wales. Incoming Incom-ing steamers bring terrible details of the recent volcanic eruptions on the Island of Ambrim, in the New Her-brldes Her-brldes group, in which 500 natives lost their lives. Witnesses of the disturbance disturb-ance describe It as having been so sudden and violent that they expected expect-ed to see the whole western side of the Island disappear. With a terrific roar, which was followed fol-lowed by a rapid succession of artil-ery-Ilke detonations, all the craters of tho volcano entered into full activity, spouting flames and lava, and throwing throw-ing out huge boulders. Great streams of lava soon were ruslilng down the slopes, cutting off the villagers from escape. In one instance two torrents of the molten mass joined and made an island of one entire section of a village. Here fifty or sixty persons perished. The scenes at night were awe-inspiring. Flames shot into the air to a height of a thousand feet, illuminating the whole scene of destruction. The ocean seemed to boil as huge superheated super-heated masses of stone fell into the nca and streams of lava poured into the bay. Dust from the craters gradually grad-ually formed a black cloud which blotted out the light of the stars. The bay after the eruption was Allot All-ot dead turtles. The water in the of dead trutles. The water In' the river was hot. The British hospital buildings were wiped out of existence, but previous to their destruction the doctors pluck-lly pluck-lly removed all the patients to a launch and escaped with them. |